What's a phrase or saying that you learned from your parents that you don't hear others saying?
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Mum had a few:
"Home, James"
"Lead on, McDuff"
"You're lucky I love you"
"You're big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself"
My mama says the first two a lot.
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“Life sucks and then you die.”
Thanks dad.
This places your dad solidly in Gen X.
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My grandpa when he would get up from a chair/the couch he would always say, "Going to have to call American Hoist and Derrick".
Now, as I'm north of 40 I found myself saying it too which is funny since the company left the market where I live 9 years ago.
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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but never pick your friend's nose
I learned that from Grimm adventures of Billy and Mandy
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My mom used to say "been ____-ing looong?" with a silly twang. No idea where she got that from and I've never heard anyone else do it. Like, if you trip she'd say been walkin' looong? If you choke on your soda, she'd say been drinkin' looong?
Some kind of weird hick thing, I'm sure.
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"Super cool" - my dad
are you 15 or 50
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This places your dad solidly in Gen X.
Nah he’s a Boomer.
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When my parents would say something was really far away, instead of saying it was "out in Timbuktu" like everyone else here, they would go "it's out in Gadansk, Poland!" I think it's a really place but like why there specifically? Neither of them had ever been. We are not Polish. Just why lmao.
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My mom used to say "been ____-ing looong?" with a silly twang. No idea where she got that from and I've never heard anyone else do it. Like, if you trip she'd say been walkin' looong? If you choke on your soda, she'd say been drinkin' looong?
Some kind of weird hick thing, I'm sure.
I remember a similar one from the 90s. If someone stumbled someone else inevitably would say "walk much?". Or with a traffic mistake "drive much?".
It evolved into just anything that came into someone's head, like if someone had a premonition "Nostradamus much?"
I'm glad it died.
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It's a matter of propinquity.
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Mum had a few:
"Home, James"
"Lead on, McDuff"
"You're lucky I love you"
"You're big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself"
My Parents would always say "Home, James dont feed the horses". I have absolutely no idea what it means or could mean.
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I remember a similar one from the 90s. If someone stumbled someone else inevitably would say "walk much?". Or with a traffic mistake "drive much?".
It evolved into just anything that came into someone's head, like if someone had a premonition "Nostradamus much?"
I'm glad it died.
I remember this.
Also, me too.
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My wife always gives me shit for saying "six of one, half a dozen of the other."
Had to look this up, never heard of it before.
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never heard other families say "oy vey" growing up. As an adult I learned it's a Jewish saying, and I asked my mom if we are Jewish and she just said no, lol
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"Destructions" instead of "Instructions"
We have this one in my family too! "Read the destructions!"
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I don't have any good ones but apparently my partner's mom used to "jokingly" tell the kids "you're special with a capital R" (back when that word was in fashion)
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Not quite a suitable answer, but I concocted the saying “stop negatizing”. My parents then used the term against me throughout my childhood when I would pout or mope around.
I quite like the saying.
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First one is from my grandfather, who is really more of a father to me than my own father. Whenever he was expressing delighted astonishment, he would exclaim Caaaaaaaaaaaaaats!
My mother would always say "ass over tea kettle". Don't try to carry all those boxes down the stairs, you're going to fall ass over tea kettle. Or in a funny exaggeratoy way like "he went flying ass over tea kettle".
My father would append the suffixes -aroonie and -areeno. It could just literally apply to any random situation. For example, if he got a good price on apples, he got a deal-areeno. One time his foot slipped and the car blasted through the fence. The ol' smash-aroonie.
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My grandpa would say "I'm hungry enough to eat the ass out of a skunk..."
Pretty sure it was just for shock value
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My grandpa would say "I'm hungry enough to eat the ass out of a skunk..."
Pretty sure it was just for shock value
I too could eat at dennys
